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Monday, July 16, 2012

Obama's True Colors Make Right See Red

“If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your
own…. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There
was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this
unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody
invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
Somebody else made that happen.” – Barack Hussein Obama

Obama’s True Colors Make Right See Red

Commentary by Sanford D. Horn

July 16, 2012

Christmas and Chanukah have come early for the Mitt Romney
campaign – as it is not about black and white, but instead it is about red and
green.

This is Barak Obama’s Joe the Plumber moment. During the
2008 campaign, Obama spoke one on one with Ohio plumber Samuel Joseph
Wurzelbacher, who has since become a candidate for Congress himself. Obama told
Wurzelbacher that “when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

True colors, Obama outed himself as more than just a far
left Democrat, but someone who believes in the redistribution of wealth. That
the haves should give to the have nots. This is not a belief in capitalism, but
instead, socialism bordering on communism – the red menace.

It’s all about context, will claim the left-wing,
lame-stream media in defense of its hero, Obama, who unleashed a firestorm when
he brazenly announced that all those successful businesses in the United States
owe their success to the government and not the hard working men and women who
risked their own capital, time, ingenuity and sanity in the quest for the next
best – fill in the blank – widget, underwater phone, or intestinal camera.

Those are Obama’s words above – direct from the Socialist
in Chief’s mouth at a speech given in Roanoke, VA. The words that demonize
personal wealth and investment; that denigrate those entrepreneurs who risked
their personal capital, created something due to their own inventiveness, hired
people to work and see that plan drawn up at the kitchen table become a three dimensional
reality.

These entrepreneurs have earned their green and deserve
to keep as much of it as possible. Those people who did not create businesses,
wealth, or take the risks are not entitled to nickel one from those who earned
their success.

One does not need a Ph.D. in political science to
understand what Obama means, where he is coming from, and to where he is going.
What little of his life known to the public has been a blueprint straight from
the Saul Alinsky playbook Rules for Radicals
(1971). Obama is a classic statist – the belief that government should control
the economy and/or social policy – the complete antithesis of the creation by
America’s Founding Fathers.

Obama’s conversation with Joe the Plumber and his speech
in Virginia were not gaffes. He’s got Joe Biden for that. Those words, direct
from Obama, is Obama in his truest incarnation. He damns success and wants
people to be ashamed of it as he continues to be the Divider in Chief – playing
the class warfare card to its utmost pinnacle.

Yes, roads, bridges, and tunnels are typically government
projects. But they are funded with the people’s money – taxpaying Americans who
have achieved success and are paying their fair share to ensure that people can
get back and forth to work for that successful businessperson who pays their
salaries and wages. The businessmen and women who pay their taxes to ensure the
safety of the public domain so people can spend their money on the products
that made that businessman and woman a success.

Obama cited Henry Ford as someone whose success was
predicated upon government. Like the age old question, which came first, the
chicken or the egg, did Henry Ford build cars for the existing roads, or were roads
built to serve a growing need due to the new automobile industry? Ford’s
expanding auto industry spawned the need for more roads to be built, not the
other way around.

(Oh, FYI – the chicken came first. On the fourth day, “G-d
created… all the winged birds of every kind.” [Genesis 1:21])

As for the claim by Obama that “there was a great teacher
somewhere in your life,” that may be true. As an educator, there’s an enormous
amount of pride to boast when a student succeeds. But make no mistake; those
teachers are paid for with the property taxes afforded by successful Americans
able to own their own homes. Again, no need to further prime the pump, Mr.
Obama.

Obama is so anti-business, it’s no surprise he is calling
for the raising of the tax rates on dividends and capital gains. Both are
currently taxed at 15 percent, but if Obama has his way, the tax rate on
capital gains will rise to 23.8 percent and dividends will be taxed at an
astronomical rate of 43.3 percent. (www.foxnews.com)
This will send the stock market into a tither just prior to those new rates
kicking in. People will be less willing to risk their capital when the returns
will be so diminished, thanks to Obama’s desire to punish the risk takers.
Where is the reward for those people taking the risks?

With the potential for fewer people to take risks,
invest, or open businesses, unemployment will continue to rise, and, eventually
the economy will be crippled by more people being dependent upon government
largesse which will ultimately dry up as the tax coffers progressively
dissipate.

More investments and jobs will be driven overseas to more
friendly economies as this administration continues to call for stark
reductions in the defense budget and still refuses to balance its own budget as
debt figures approach $16 trillion.

Obama should answer the following: if government is
responsible for the success of
business due to the existence of taxpayer funded public school teachers, is the
same government responsible for the
increasing numbers of drop outs?

If government is responsible for the success of business due to the existence of taxpayer funded roads,
bridges, and tunnels, is government responsible
for the drunk drivers that inhabit the same infrastructure?

If government is responsible for the success of business due to the existence of taxpayer funded research
creating the internet, is government responsible
for the cyber stalkers who prey on children?

Government is nothing without the entrepreneurs,
inventors, and innovators, who erect, create, hire and fill the tax coffers to
allow government to build the roads, bridges, tunnels, cyber infrastructure,
public airwaves of television and radio and public schools.

Obama’s words were “insulting to every entrepreneur and
innovator in America,” said Romney. Of course Romney is right in his assertion,
and as a businessman who saved the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, he
would know.

Government more often than not interferes with business.
It overregulates business to the point of pushing it out of the United States. Even
the simplest business – that of a child’s lemonade stand. In this era of uber-litigiousness,
a permit costing more than the child might reasonably expect to earn is
crushing young entrepreneurship.

Rugged individualism is the cornerstone upon which the United
States was founded, built, and expanded from sea to shining sea. Yet, with the
Obama administration, government is to be praised as the reason behind anyone’s
success. According to the Obama blueprint, the only good jobs are government
jobs. This is an abandonment of capitalism that could lead to the dilution of
the Republic.

It is not too late to change course back to the direction
intended by the Founding Fathers and give Romney, a proven business success, a
chance to right the ship that is America.